Kathmandu: The sudden and unwarranted press conference summoned by Dr. Rajiv Shahi at the premises of the heavily guarded Military hospital at Chhauni last week has surprised many a brains here.

The eye witness account offered by Dr. Shahi summarily puts all the blames of the June 1 Palace event onto the heads of then Crown Prince Dipendra who later was declared King of Nepal.

The press conference where newspapers like ours were summarily rejected for unknown reasons and revelations made there by Dr. Shahi have raised more questions than have answered regarding the mystery surrounding the Royale killings of the June 1 evening.

Firstly, the press conference was not a two-way affair reportedly. Media men present on the occasion were not allowed to ask questions countering Dr. Shahi’s eyewitnesses account.

Secondly, the summoning of the press conference in a hurry too were clearly made at a time when new monarch Gyanendra had already announced the formation of a Royal Probe Commission headed by Chief Justice Keshav Prasad Upadhyaya.

A question automatically now arises as to whether it was a deliberate design to “influence” the would be findings of the Royal Probe Commission? A million-dollar question indeed.

Secondly, Dr. Shahi has maintained that Crown Prince Dipendra was in a state of drunk and in the drunken spell he killed his mother and brother in a most horrifying manner. Doubts could be raised here as well over as to how a drunken person of the sort of Crown Prince at that particular moment could collect such a courage to kill his own mother and brother in the manner as revealed by Dr. Shahi. The fact is also that medical reports have confirmed that there were no traces of ‘Alcohol’ in Dipendra’s body.

Thirdly and most surprisingly, Dr. Shahi has himself given the account that on that fateful evening no body talked of the marriage of Crown Prince Dipendra and hence there is little to presume that Dipendra got annoyed and irritated over his bride choice which were reportedly disliked by his elders and killed all of his family men. A contradiction indeed.

As per the revelations of Dr. Shahi, during the killing spree inside the Royal Palace, he was active in his bid to save His Majesty King Birendra and others. This means that he should have been busy in those fateful moments and could have been moving here and there. How it was possible that not even a single bullet injured Dr. Shahi during the calamitous episode?

Dr. Shahi says that Prince Paras simply could save his life and some of his sisters when they jointly begged of Dipendra to spare their lives. How it is possible that a drunken person who could kill his entire family so brutally could spare the lives of others?

And many such other equally pertinent questions could be asked at this juncture. However, since the Royal Commission so graciously constituted by His Majesty King Gyanendra is busy in finalizing the details of the ghastly killing hence it would not be desirable to talk more on this topic.

This notwithstanding, media reports have it that Dr. Shahi is being taken to task by the military authorities for having met the press men. Military sources say that Dr.Shahi summoned the press on his own.

Unconfirmed reports have it that the military might penalize Dr. Shahi for having addressed the conference and that too without the prior permission of the military authorities. To recall, Dr. Shahi is himself a military officer.

This adds to the further confusion of the already confused population.